ProfessorTimothy Horbury

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences

BIO

Space mission involvement

Principal Investigator of the Solar Orbiter magnetometer, launched February 2020
Science lead of the IMAP magnetometer, launched September 2025
Science team member, Parker Solar Probe (FIELDS and SWEAP), HelioSwarm, BepiColombo

UROP opportunities: I am not offering any UROP placements this summer.

Research interests
Waves and turbulence in plasmas
Solar wind structures

Space weather prediction 
Novel data analysis techniques

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Natural Sciences

POSITION NAME

  • Professor of Physics

FIELDS OF RESEARCH